Prison Guards Quotes

• The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

  Jean Harris

  Angel, Atrocities, Civil Rights

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• The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

  Robert Reich

  Security Guards, Growing, Occupation

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• This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed, were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees.

  Rudolf Hoss

  Men, Hands, People

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• It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Men, Soldier

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Captivity, Would Be, Claims

  "About Tolerance" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1977.

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• I'd never been a prison guard before or anything.

  Lynndie England

  Prison

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The prison-industrial complex employs millions of people directly and indirectly. Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, prison guards, construction companies that build prisons, police, probation officers, court clerks, the list goes on and on. Many predominately white rural communities have come to believe that their local economies depend on prisons for jobs.

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, Believe, White

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

  Michelle Alexander

  Powerful, California, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

  Barry Pepper

  Directors, Casting, Snipers

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• Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

  Maya Angelou

  Leadership, Wisdom, Country

  'His Day Is Done' - Poem in Tribute to Nelson Mandela, delivered December 2013

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